We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered

You can't worry what people think.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.